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to
a
heavy
fine.
Hence
it
follows,
that,
very
few
persons indeed,
if
any,
having
1
only
Wholesale
Li-
censes,
are
found
to
advertise
cheap
Spirits
;
and,
if
they
do,
it
is
at
considerably
higher
prices
than
those
quoted
by
the
class
of
Gin-shop-keepers
;
and
their
means
of
doing
so
at
all,
may
be
consi-
dered,
with but
few
exceptions,
to
arise
more
from
the
inferior
quality
of
the
Spirits,
than
from
any
great
extent
of
adulteration.
To
begin,
however,
with
the
article
of
COGNAC
BRANDY.
The
prices,
as
I
have
gathered
them
from
sun-
dry
advertisements
and
placards,
and
from
the
nu-
merous
printed
bills
left
at
my
house
(to
the
great
annoyance
of
myself
and
servants),
at
which
the
advertising
dealers
propose
to
sell
the
very
finest
qualities
of
this
brandy,
are
27s.
6d.
;
26s.
;
25s.
6d.j
24s.;
and
23s.
Qd.
per
gallon;
but,
when
I
shall
have
shown
to
my
readers,
as I
will
do,
that,
notwithstanding
all
the
heavy
expences
which
attach
to
this
article,
and
that,
although
no
description
of
it
is
to
be
purchased
at
any-
thing
like
even
the
highest
of
the
advertised
prices,
an
enormous
profit
is
realized
by
the
pla-
carders,
I
almost
question
whether
many
will
not
feel
a desire
to
engage
in
such
an
extremely
lucrative
casioned
by
what
he
has
sold
over
his
bar
in
small
quantities,
how
amply
to
his
benefit
the
object
is
fulfilled
I
leave
others
to
surmise.